Signals of Distress

Crace, Jim

ISBN 10: 0670856967 / ISBN 13: 9780670856961

Edité par NY: FSG [1995]., Toronto, ON, Canada, 1994

A propos de cet article

This copy has been SIGNED by the author! The highly acclaimed author's fourth novel - tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830's. His latest novel - Quarantine, was short-listed for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Signals of Distress
• Éditeur: NY: FSG [1995]., Toronto, ON, Canada
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670856967
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670856961
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First American Edition/First Printing.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Set in the early 19th century this novel tells of the effects on a small kelping village when two ships caught in violent storms are forced to discharge their very different cargoes onto their beaches. The way the uninvited guests affect the village is explored.

Présentation de l'éditeur

November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American steamer off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and an innful of rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a ship from London, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the American slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. Chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the best books of 1995, Signals of Distress, Jim Crace's fourth novel, once again displays the author's gift for inventing richly strange and believable worlds that uncannily foretell our own.